Don't Turn on the Light

She commandeered the room in the basement of her dorm as soon as she realized she would have to pull an all-nighter in order to prepare for tomorrow’s final exam. Her roommate, Jenna, liked to get to bed early, so she packed up everything she thought she would need and went downstairs to study . . . and study . . . and study some more.

It was two o’clock, when she realized that she’d left one of the textbooks upstairs on her bed. With a dramatic sigh, she rose, and climbed the stairs slowly to her third-floor dorm room. The lights were dim in the long hallway, and the old boards creaked under her weary tread. She reached her room and turned the handle as softly as she could, pushing the door open just enough to slip inside, so that the hall lights wouldn’t wake her roommate.

The room was filled with a strange, metallic smell. She frowned a bit, her arms breaking out into chills. There was a strange feeling of malice in the room, as if a malevolent gaze were fixed upon her.It was a mind trick; the all-nighter was catching up with her.

She could hear Jenna breathing on the far side of the room—a heavy sound, almost as if she had been running. Jenna must have picked up a cold during the last tense week before finals.

She crept along the wall until she reached her bed, groping among the covers for the stray history textbook. In the silence, she could hear a steady drip-drip-drip sound. She sighed silently. Facilities would have to come to fix the sink in the bathroom…again.

Her fingers closed on the textbook. She picked it up softly and withdrew from the room as silently as she could.

Relieved to be out of the room, she hurried back downstairs, collapsed into an overstuffed chair and studied until six o’clock.She finally decided that enough was enough. If she slipped upstairs now, she could get a couple hours’ sleep before her nine o’clock exam.

The first of the sun’s rays were beaming through the windows as she slowly slid the door open, hoping not to awaken Jenna. Her nose was met by an earthy, metallic smell a second before her eyes registered the scene in her dorm room. Jenna was spread-eagled on top of her bed against the far wall, her throat cut from ear to ear and her nightdress stained with blood. Two drops of blood fell from the saturated blanket with a drip-drip noise that sounded like a leaky faucet.

Scream after scream poured from her mouth, but she couldn’t stop herself any more than she could cease wringing her hands. All along the hallway, doors slammed and footsteps came running down the passage.

Within moments other students had gathered in her doorway, and one of her friends gripped her arm with a shaking hand and pointed a trembling finger toward the wall. Her eyes widened in shock at what she saw. Then she fainted into her friend’s arms.

On the wall above her bed, written in her roommate’s blood, were the words: “Aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light?”

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oh! that was a little scary! i know a story like that! it was about a girl and she had a dog! the girl went to sleep with her dog on the bed! then, something licked her! so she went to the bathroom and came back,the dog was hung,with no head and written in the dogs blood,`people can lick 2! scary!

i read it out 2 my lil bro and wen the girl screemed i had som1 do da best screem ev, and he almost ran outda house he wont even even go 2 his room (in the basement) he blocked da windows with tinfoil last month

It really wasn't scary. Well the girl who found Jenna would have been but I wasn't. And they saved the scary part 'till the very end.It really wasn't an "on the edge of your seat" story because the part before the scary part wasn't the slightest bit scary so you would think that it's not gonna be scary so you'd stop reading it. Well that's just what I think.

I heard that story on urban legend site it's not true. And that's not the version i remember.The version i heard was the roommate had went out with a friend and the other one stayed up studying but it was the studier that was cut up.

Diisz story iiszz szzoo different in the other story...the girl goes to a party and the other girl stays studying and when the girl that went to the party comes back she goes to sleep thinking that in the mornin she can study before the test,so when she wakes up she goes to her roommate and tries to ask her but she doesn't listen so she shake's her a bit in the shoulders but she still doesn't wake up and then she turns her over and to her surprise she was dead...and above the wall of the dead girl's bed says"Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light"?

Um.. Sorry but this is a rip off from a different story, its really nice, but the differences are, in the original, it was a girl who went out for a party with her friends, but forgot her jacket in her dorm. However, her friend was sleeping for he had an exam the next morning. Since she didnt wanna wake him up, she quietly moved through the room and got her jacket, then left. Later that night she returned to find cops covering her place. Shocked she went inside to find blood, everywhere. Her room mate was slashed open from head to toe on the couch. A near by cop asked her, where was she last night? She explained she was out, but only came back to get her jacket around nine, but she didnt turn the lights on for he was asleep. They said that was about the time he was killed. Horrified she asked was there any evidence who would have done this? They answered, No only a note. On the bathroom mirror, spread in his blood, was a message. "Aren't you glad you didnt turn on the lights?"

i hated the bit wear she soor blood i sreamed like this AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

This was not "off a movie" or an episode of a TV show, either. Urban Legends, the movie, was based on urban legends, like this one. "Supernatural" gets storylines from urban legends and ghost stories, like this one. The stories--in several versions--were around long before the movie and TV show.

wow that was a good storie really awesome any ways that actually happend to me to.but lucky i escaped.lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Spooky

oh shoot!
i can say this is the best ghost story i've ever read!
i have a collection of books with ghost stories but those were nothing compared to this!
wooohh....the best! it scared me especially the last part!

u know that, thats actually a true story it happened on november 22 1989, and it happened again in 1998, and then again in 1999, don't u guys read the newpapers, it happened in new zealand, in the uk,and in washington dc

Wait, so who killed the girl's friend? I thought that if she had turned on the light that something bad would happen to her as well. I didn't want her to go to the room because I thought that whatever presence she felt the first time would still be there and get her next.

this was so creepy!when i read the drip drip part i knew that had to be blood and the roommate was probably dead but it threw me off when with the breathing part since she couldnt breath and be dead at the same time.but that is was the killer was astounding and the ending with the writing on the wall absolutely blew me away!great story!i give it 3 thumbs up!;D

God...I don't know what I would do from the next two:faint or even die...from the horror!I cannot imagine that I would pass my night with my roomate be murdered while I was in too...BTW,I always was scared of drip drops...I cannot imagine passing my night with this sound and NO WAY with my wardrobe OPEN!(Yes,someone I know sleeps with open wardrobe!)BRRR....

This is the same story as the Hookman. He'd cut peoples throats like that and then would write "aren't you glad you didn't turn on the light?" in the blood of his victims. I learned from "Supernatural" :D good story though.

that was an amazing ghost story i loved how it was discribed to make it scary i could not read it out to my little siter becaus it woud of scared her and she would not go into her bedroom again anyway i read her 1 paregraph
and she liked it but she wanted to read the rest anyway i thought it was realy scary i think other people would love it like me.

That was totally scary i am NEVER EVER SLEEPING WITH A NIGHT LIGHT WITH MEH EVER AGAIN! and it is scary to let you people out there and you dont think its scary well you dont know what scary is cause i love this story im about to show my family...

on the first day of 3rd grade, i was walking down the hall and i was looking at the wall so when i looked in front of me there was this girl. she said hi to me then she said bye. then, her face turned all bloody and wrinkly and she dissapeered. so i screamed and everyone came running and i tried to tell them what happened but they didn't belive me. sooooooooo i got suspended. wich is good for me because i hate school.

Huh saw this one in supernatural season 1 episode:hookman but she wasn't studying she said she needed to be punished next day, she was killed with a big AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU DIDN'T TURN ON THE LIGHTS??? Written on the wall with a hook full of her roommate's blood. Sweeny!!

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww that was a good story now i can tell it to my freinds at camp thankssssssssssssssssssss !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!